Cheikhou Kouyaté salary, net worth, age, girlfriend, Career and much more
Cheikhou Kouyaté is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Senegal national team. He is often regarded as one of the best midfielders in the world. He has been playing football since he was a child and he has an incredible vision of the game.
Cheikhou Kouyaté is known for his creative and offensive style of play which has led him to be regarded as one of the best players in the world. Here, we take a closer look at Cheikhou Kouyaté’s age, salary in 2024 and net worth in 2024, Playing Position, height, Current Team, girlfriend, facts, house, Individual Awards, football Career so far and much more.
Who Is Cheikhou Kouyaté?
Cheikhou Kouyaté (born 21 December 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Senegal national team.
Kouyaté moved from Senegal to Belgium in 2006, having been offered a youth contract at RWDM Brussels. He played ten games before moving to Anderlecht aged 19, where he made 206 appearances and won the Belgian First Division A four times. In June 2014, he joined West Ham United of the Premier League, and four years later he transferred to Crystal Palace for an estimated £9.5 million.
Kouyaté represented the Senegal national team at the 2012 Olympics. He played at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, including Senegal’s victory in 2021.
Cheikhou Kouyaté Facts, Bio, WIKI
| Full Name | Cheikhou Kouyaté |
| Nickname | Mr. Versatile |
| Profession | Midfielder, centre-back |
| Date of Birth & Age | 21 December 1989 (age 32) |
| Birth Place | Dakar, Senegal |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Marital Status | unmarried |
| Hometown & Country | London, England |
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Cheikhou Kouyaté Current Team
He is currently playing for Crystal Palace
Cheikhou Kouyaté Age
His age is 32 years old
Who is Cheikhou Kouyaté Girlfriend?
Cheikhou Kouyaté is currently single, according to our records.
What is his Playing Position?
He plays as a midfielder in his team.
What is Cheikhou Kouyaté Salary in 2024?
Cheikhou Kouyaté earns £67,000 a week, £3,484,000 a year playing for Crystal Palace as a DC, DM.
What is Cheikhou Kouyaté Net Worth in 2024?
Cheikhou Kouyaté’s net worth is £22,328,800.
Cheikhou Kouyaté Football Career
Here, we take a closer look at Cheikhou Kouyaté’s Football career so far.
Club Career
Early career
Kouyaté began his football career in 1996 in his hometown with ASC Yego Dakar and was discovered by RWDM Brussels in September 2006. RWDM Brussels signed the player in January of the following year. He then made ten league appearances for the first team between 2007 and 2008.
Anderlecht
When Kouyaté turned 19, he left Brussels because his former employers did not pay him three months’ salary. He subsequently moved to Anderlecht in the same city on a four-year contract for a free transfer. He was also on loan at KV Kortrijk. Kouyaté made 153 league appearances for Anderlecht, scoring four goals in five seasons at the club. He won the league titles in 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14, as well as the Belgian Super Cups in 2010-11, 2012-13 and 2013-14.
West Ham United
On June 18, 2014, Kouyaté signed for West Ham United on a four-year contract for a fee of £7 million. He made his West Ham debut on 16 August in a 1–0 home loss to Tottenham Hotspur, for which the BBC described his performance as “impressive”. The following week, manager Sam Allardyce compared him to former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira.
On 28 December, Kouyaté scored his first goal for West Ham in a 1–2 loss to Arsenal. His second goal of the season came on February 8, 2015 in a 1-1 draw with Manchester United. His performance in the game won praise from manager Allardyce for Kouyaté’s Man of the Match performance, which was also singled out as the individual performance of the season, by a West Ham player, in the clubs’ annual awards.
He scored two more goals in the season, in a 2–2 away draw with Tottenham and in a 2–1 away loss to Leicester City. Kouyaté finished the season having played 31 of a possible 38 Premier League games.
2015–16 season
On 9 August 2015, Kouyaté scored the opening goal in the 43rd minute in a 2–0 win over Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. He then scored in a 4–3 home loss to AFC Bournemouth on August 22. He scored his third goal of the season in a 2–2 draw with Norwich City on 26 September, netting the equalizer in the 90th minute to salvage a point for West Ham.
In March 2016, Kouyate signed a new five-year deal with West Ham that could keep him at the club until 2021. Kouyaté was sent off twice during the 2015–16 season and both times the Football Association (FA) rescinded the card. On 21 February, he was sacked by referee Jonathan Moss in a 5–1 FA Cup win at Blackburn Rovers, only for the card to be rescinded a few days later. On 2 April he was sacked by referee Mark Clattenburg in a Premier League match at the Boleyn Ground against Crystal Palace. This too, however, was revoked a few days later.
2016–17 season
On 4 August 2016, Kouyaté scored West Ham’s first goal at the Olympic Stadium, in the eighth minute of a Europa League match against NK Domžale. He also scored the second in the game, which West Ham won 3–0. On 26 October 2016, Kouyaté scored the opening goal in a 2–1 EFL Cup victory against rivals Chelsea. On 8 April 2017, Kouyaté scored an “impressive 25-yard low blow”, as West Ham beat relegation rivals Swansea City.
2017–18 season
On 23 September 2017, Kouyaté scored his first goal of the season in a 3–2 loss against Tottenham. Kouyaté’s last goal for the club came on 24 November 2017, scoring the equalizer in a 1–1 draw with Leicester City.
Kouyaté headed the goal with an arms-crossed-down celebration, designed to help raise awareness of ongoing slavery in Libya.
Crystal Palace
On 1 August 2018, Kouyaté completed a move to London’s Crystal Palace on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £9.5 million.
He made his debut ten days later in a 2–0 win at Fulham, as an 88th-minute substitute for Andros Townsend. He scored his first goal in his 54th match on 26 December 2019, equalizing in a 2–1 win over his previous club at Selhurst Park.
After the arrival of Patrick Vieira as a manager in 2021, Kouyaté continued to play in midfield or in an extended defense in a 5-3-3 formation (versus part of a four-man defense in 2020-21) while his former teammates in midfield Luka Milivojević and James McArthur declined in importance.
Kouyaté played in Palace’s run to the 2021–22 FA Cup semi-finals, scoring in a 2–1 home win over Stoke City in the fifth round on 1 March. In May 2022, Kouyaté called his Senegalese teammate Idrissa Gueye a “real man” for refusing to wear a Paris Saint-Germain jersey with a rainbow-colored number for LGBT rights. Vieira said that he would have a private talk with Kouyaté.
Nottingham Forest
On 13 August 2022, Kouyaté signed a two-year deal with Premier League side Nottingham Forest.
International career
Kouyaté was called up to the Senegal U-20 team at the age of 18 in the same year as his debut at the RWDM in Brussels. He scored two goals in just three games for the team in 2007.
On 29 February 2012, Kouyaté made his senior Senegal debut as a 56th-minute substitute for Mohamed Diamé in a goalless friendly against South Africa. At that time, he was in the process of naturalization as a Belgian citizen and had been linked to the national team of the European country.
In the same year, it was announced that he would be in the squad for the Senegal Olympic soccer team. He played in every match, as Senegal’s debut appearance in the tournament ended with a knockout in the quarterfinals.
In January 2015, he was part of the squad for the 2015 African Cup of Nations, held in Equatorial Guinea. He scored his first international goal on 5 September in qualifying for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, in a 2–0 win over Namibia.
He was part of the 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and played in all seven games as Senegal finished runners-up at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. At the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, he played six for the winners, having been suspended for the last 16 against Cape Verde. Returning for the quarter-final against Equatorial Guinea, he restored his lead in a 3–1 victory after spending two minutes as a substitute.
Interesting Facts about Cheikhou Kouyaté
● Cheikhou Kouyate was born on December 21, 1989 (age 32) in Dakar, Senegal
● He is a celebrity soccer player
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Summary
The article discusses Cheikhou Kouyaté age, salary in 2024 and net worth in 2024, Playing Position, height, Current Team, girlfriend, facts, house, Individual Awards, football career so far, and much more.
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